From otata’s bookshelf:
David Miller, Circle Square Triangle: fragments of an autobiography
Romano Zeraschi, Poems Lost and Found
Suffering from an onset of heartbreak, otata is unable to issue her 48th number. She extends her regrets and offers thanks to all who have contributed over the past four years. The email account will go dormant as well, at least for the time being. In the spirit of Santoka’s last verse, please check back, in the (perhaps unlikely) event of a return.
— JM
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and from otata’s bookshelf
John Levy, Silence Like Another Name
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otata will suspend publication with number 48 (December, 2019).
Submissions for number 48 must be received by November 15, 2019.
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Otata mo aru hi wa kite kureru yama no aki fukaku
Otata will come again
one day
late fall in the mountains
— Santoka (as translated by Burton Watson, who notes, “Otata was a woman who went around selling fish in the area of Santoka’s cottage in Matsuyama.”)
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and from otata’s bookshelf
Kim Dorman, the color of milk tea
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Otata mo aru hi wa kite kureru yama no aki fukaku
Otata will come again
one day
late fall in the mountains
— Santoka (as translated by Burton Watson, who notes, “Otata was a woman who went around selling fish in the area of Santoka’s cottage in Matsuyama.”)
Address submissions to otatahaiku@gmail.com
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and from otata’s bookshelf
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Otata mo aru hi wa kite kureru yama no aki fukaku
Otata will come again
one day
late fall in the mountains
— Santoka (as translated by Burton Watson, who notes, “Otata was a woman who went around selling fish in the area of Santoka’s cottage in Matsuyama.”)
Address submissions to otatahaiku@gmail.com
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and from otata’s bookshelf
John Levy and Alan Chong Lau, eye2word, iii.
otata will return to the usual format with the next issue (Otata 45 — September, 2019).
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Otata mo aru hi wa kite kureru yama no aki fukaku
Otata will come again
one day
late fall in the mountains
— Santoka (as translated by Burton Watson, who notes, “Otata was a woman who went around selling fish in the area of Santoka’s cottage in Matsuyama.”)
Address submissions to otatahaiku@gmail.com
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Otata 44 (August, 2019) will again offer a single poem from each contributor.
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Otata mo aru hi wa kite kureru yama no aki fukaku
Otata will come again
one day
late fall in the mountains
— Santoka (as translated by Burton Watson, who notes, “Otata was a woman who went around selling fish in the area of Santoka’s cottage in Matsuyama.”)
Address submissions to otatahaiku@gmail.com
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And from otata’s bookshelf —
My apologies to any correspondent to whom I failed to respond during this challenging month.
Otata 43 (July, 2019) will offer one poem from each contributor.
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Otata mo aru hi wa kite kureru yama no aki fukaku
Otata will come again
one day
late fall in the mountains
— Santoka (as translated by Burton Watson, who notes, “Otata was a woman who went around selling fish in the area of Santoka’s cottage in Matsuyama.”)
Address submissions to otatahaiku@gmail.com
The editor is grateful to John Levy and Alan Chong Lau for sharing two issues of their stunning collaboration eye2word with otata for our 41st number.
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Otata mo aru hi wa kite kureru yama no aki fukaku
Otata will come again
one day
late fall in the mountains
— Santoka (as translated by Burton Watson, who notes, “Otata was a woman who went around selling fish in the area of Santoka’s cottage in Matsuyama.”)
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And from otata’s bookshelf —
Stefano D’Andrea, Paul Claudel—Cent phrases pour éventails
Le Lumachine nr. 32 (febbraio 2019)
Kim Dorman, Kerala Notebook (November, 2018)
Mark Young, A vicarious life — the backing tracks
Please Note: The editor is proud to announce that two installments of eye2word, a book-length work of photographs by John Levy and poems by Alan Chong Lau will appear here in lieu of May’s Otata.
Submissions will again be considered for the June issue.
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Otata mo aru hi wa kite kureru yama no aki fukaku
Otata will come again
one day
late fall in the mountains
— Santoka (as translated by Burton Watson, who notes, “Otata was a woman who went around selling fish in the area of Santoka’s cottage in Matsuyama.”)
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And from otata’s bookshelf —
Johannes S.H. Bjerg
your shadow of birds — 22 haiku sequences and their aftersounds
din skygge af fugle — 22 haiku-sekvenser og deres efterlyde
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Otata mo aru hi wa kite kureru yama no aki fukaku
Otata will come again
one day
late fall in the mountains
— Santoka (as translated by Burton Watson, who notes, “Otata was a woman who went around selling fish in the area of Santoka’s cottage in Matsuyama.”)
Address submissions to otatahaiku@gmail.com
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